Invalidate
Make
Make verb - To put into effect through legislative or authoritative action.
Usage example: the legislature failed to make any new laws last session
Invalidate is an antonym for make.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- However, if Curtiss could take an aircraft built before the Wrights and prove it to be able to fly, he may have some chance to make a prior art argument and weaken or invalidate the Wrights' patent.
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When Blackbeard shows himself to be the stronger of the two and asks Don't Make Me Destroy You, Ace retorts that giving in would invalidate him being born as a man.
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